[WALSH, John Henry.] ‘STONEHENGE’.
Manual of British rural Sports, comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking, Racing, Boating, Pedestrianism, and the various rural Games and Amusements of Great Britain.
London, M’Corquodale & Co. for G. Routledge & Co., 1857.
8vo, pp. xvi, 720; with frontispiece and 30 woodcut plates (of which one double-page), numerous woodcut illustrations in text; occasional light toning, a few creased corners with dust-stains, tissue guard removed from frontispiece; a good copy in publisher’s green cloth boards, backed in modern red morocco, spine lettered directly in gilt, yellow endpapers; boards lightly rubbed and bumped with minor losses at corners, ink-marks and damp-stains; contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, ticket of R. Davies, Birmingham, to upper pastedown.
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Manual of British rural Sports, comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking, Racing, Boating, Pedestrianism, and the various rural Games and Amusements of Great Britain.
Third edition of Walsh’s popular text on field sports. First published the previous year, the Manual of British rural Sports ‘covers the whole cycle of field sports, and, among other things, deals in a scientific manner with the breeding of horses’ (ODNB).
Not in Mellon.
